Scenario: Create and Apply CentOS with MySQL Approval Policies

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As the tenant administrator for the development and quality engineering business group, you want to apply strict governance to catalog item requests. Before your users can provision the CentOS with MySQL catalog item, you want your vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator to approve the machine request and you want your software manager to approve the software request.

About this task

You create and apply one approval policy for the vSphere CentOS with MySQL service catalog request to require approval for the machine by a vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator based on specific conditions, and another approval policy for the MySQL Software component to require approval by your software manager for every request.

Approval administrators can only create the approvals, and a business group managers can apply them to entitlements. As a tenant administrator, you can both create the approvals and apply them to entitlements.

Prerequisites

Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator. Only a tenant administrator can both create and apply approval policies.

Procedure

As the tenant administrator you want to ensure that the development and quality engineering group receives virtual machines that are properly provisioned in your environment, so you create an approval policy that requires pre approval for certain types of requests.

As the tenant administrator, your software managers asked you to create and apply approval policies for MySQL installations to track licensing usage. You create a policy to notify the software license manager whenever the MySQL for Linux Virtual Machines Software component is requested.

As the tenant administrator, you can create approval policies and entitlements. You modify the Dev and QE entitlement to apply the approval policies that you created so that approvals are triggered when a service catalog user requests the item.